Hook and eye



' M. D. FORREST,

HOOK AND EYE. APPLICATION FILED NOV. 11, 1920.

1,418,244. Patented May 30,1922.

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Specification of Letters Patent. Pgttgnted May 30, 1922,

Application filed November 11, i920. Serial No. 423,395.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I,'l\/IATTIE D. FORREST, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Marion, in the county of Grant and State of Indiana, have invented a new and Improved Hook and Eye, of which the followin is a full, clear, and exact description.

Fhis invention relates to improvements in hooks and eyes, an object of the invention being to provide an improved hook and eye which may be quickly attached to adjacent edges of a garment and which are self fastening, in that it is not necessary to sew them to the goods.

A further object is to provide a hook and eye formed of spring wire and provided with pins for securing and locking them in a fabric, and to provide improved means in both the hook member and the eye member for accommodating the pins so that there is no danger of pricking the fingers upon operating the hook and eye.

A further object is to provide a device of the character stated which will be simple and practical in construction, neat and attractive in appearance and comparatively inexpensive to manufacture. 7

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combination and arrangements of parts ,as will be more fully hereinafter described and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a top plan view of my improved hook and eye attached to the adjacent edges of a garment.

Figure 2 is a view in section through the garment on the line 2-2 of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a perspective view of my improved eye member.

Figure at is a similar View of the hook member.

Referring in detail to the drawings, 1 and 2 represent the adjacent edges of a garment, and 3 and 4 my improved hook and eye members secured thereto. The hook and eye members are each formed of a single piece of spring wire bent upon itself to glve the desired shape.

The intermediate portion of the wire forming the eye member is bent to form a loop 5, the ends of the wire are then flared apart forming shoulders 6. Those portions of the wire forming the shoulders are slightly offset as shown at 7 to provide grooves or recesses 8 in the shoulders. From the shoulder 6 the ends of the wire extend in parallel directions for a short distance ,as shown at 9, and are then bent at right angles as shown at 10 and extend inwardly toward each other. The ends of the wire are again bent at right angles and extend in parallel directions back toward the shoulders 6. The extreme ends of the wire are pointed forming pins 11 having their pointed ends located under the oflset portions 7 in the shoulders 6.

The hook member 3 is formed-exactly like the eye member 4, with the exception that the intermediate portion of'the wire instead of being located in the same plane with the main body portion of the device is bent at right angles to the plane of the body portion and then bent again at right angles extending for a short distance back toward the body portion in a plane parallel thereto and forming a book 12 adapted to engage the loop 5 on the eye member. Similar reference numerals have been applied to those portions of the hook member 3 which correspond to similar portions of the eye member 4.

In positioning either the hook member or the eye member in a piece of fabric the pins 11 are passed through one face of the fabric and extend thereunder for a short distance and then project back through the fabric. By squeezing the free ends of the pins 11. together they may be passed between the shoulders 6 and will spring into the grooves 8 as shown clearly in Figures 1 and 2. The members will thus be securely locked against any accidental displacement or removal from the fabric.

Various slight changes and alterations might be made in the general form of the parts described without departing from my invention, hence I do not wish to limit myself to the precise details set forth, but shall consider myself at liberty to make such slight changes and alterations as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of the appended claims.

I claim:

'1. A device of the character stated, comprising a hookmember and an eye member, each formed of a single piece of wire, the

Wires forming the members being bent at their intermediate portions to provide engaging hooks and eyes, each of the Wires then being .fiared apart providing shoulders, said shoulders bent to provide 'lkeepers, the ends of each Wire then extending in parallelism away from the shouldersand includ ing return bends, said Wires terminatingin parallel pins located "between the parallel 10 portions above mentioned, and the free ends pins adapted" to be held by the tween for the purpose specified.

.MATTIE D. FORREST. 

